Darling was conflicted.
For as long as she could remember, she had wanted to rebel. But that was when she thought it was her destiny to be a dimwitted damsel, who's goal in life was to be saved by an obnoxious prince. Now, she didn't know if that was true.
When she woke Apple from her enchanted sleep, something inside her changed. She felt her destiny change, morph into something entirely opposite. She could feel her destiny change from becoming a damsel to becoming, well, to becoming Daring.
Wasn't this what she wanted? To be seen as the rescuer instead of the rescued? To be taken seriously for once in her life? It felt wrong.
She couldn't very well rebel now, could she? To rebel would be to take her old destiny back, and she had to admit, this one fit better. But something still felt off. Like someone had grabbed a permanent marker and scribbled over her destiny, but couldn't remember what was the before so just wrote her something new based on her own thoughts and preferences, and that couldn't happen.. Could it?
She pondered this for a little while longer, and would have continued, but she heard a twig snap a few feet away from her.
She jumped to her feet, hand on her sword, and spun around, only to notice that it was just Ginger Breadhouse.
She slumped back down on the bench and braced her chin in her hands as she stared at the empty Dragon Games Arena in front if her.
"Darling? Are you okay?" Ginger asked as she sat down on the bench beside her.
"I don't know." Darling replied. "After the whole "me waking Apple up instead of my brother" thing, I don't know what to think or feel. Everything feels off.. "
Ginger looked confused.
"I thought you would be thrilled about it, I mean you wanted to rebel anyway, and now you don't have to. I would give my best spatula to have my destiny change to what I want! So what's the problem?"
Darling let the corners of her mouth tilt up, in to a tiny smile. Ginger didn't understand. Yes, when you put it like that, it seemed like Darling was the luckiest fairytale in the world. But she had missed out a few key "ingredients" to Darling's problem.
"Well.. " She started. "There's Daring. He's trained his whole life for this destiny, and for it to just disappear, and to give it to his sister no less, it seems a little cruel, and unnecessarily so. Then of course there is the slight issue that I've trained to be a princess, or a knight, but never a "Prince Charming" and what if I don't want to?" Her voice was starting to rise, "What if I don't want to become my brother? What if I still just want to be a knight? It'll destroy my family even more than it already has!"
Her voice broke and she covered her face with her hands as Ginger wrapped an arm around her back to comfort her.
"I made you something," she reached her other arm behind her and pulled out an iced chocolate cake, with blue curlique designs and mint flavored silver ornaments. (Darling's favorite)
"It was supposed to be a sort of celebration cake but I think it would be better as comfort cake. "
When Darling looked over at the cake, her insides melted. Here she was, freaking out about some minuscule thing as her destiny, (everyone had problems with theirs, why was hers any more important?) and Ginger goes out of her way to make her cake, her favorite cake for that matter. For no reason other than to make her happy.
Darling looked up and saw Ginger watching her reaction. She straightened her back and their eyes met.
Before Darling consciously knew what she was doing, her lips were on Ginger's.
It didn't last a moment, it was more or less a peck, but all the same, it was exactly what Darling needed, and it was exactly what she was missing. Ginger.
She pulled away quickly and hopped off the bench.
Ginger was frozen in shock.
"Hey Ginger?" Darling called before turning back to EAH.
Ginger whipped her head around to look at her.
"Yeah?"
"Thanks for the cake."
Yay I'm done! Sorry it was so short. I don't really ship these two... But I thought I did pretty well? Maybe. Probably not... Oh well..
I need more ships! So keep commenting so I can do more writing! Oh also.. Thanks to Mrs Morpheus for suggesting this pairing!
